Assessment of adult relatedness: a review of empirical findings from object relations and attachment theories.
Assessment techniques designed to measure adult behavior and mental representation that emphasize relatedness constructs are reviewed. These measures grow out of two traditions, object relations and attachment theories. Although these two paradigms are fairly well elucidated theoretically, the relevant assessment literature is only more recently expanding, especially that focusing directly on adult attachment as opposed to childhood attachment. In addition to a presentation of various projective and objective measures, this review highlights the clinical and research implications for integration of these two paradigms around the cognitive, affective, and behavioral vicissitudes of adult relatedness.
Fishler
P H
PH
Department of Psychiatry, Cornell University Medical College, The New York Hospital.
Sperling
M B
MB
Carr
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AC
D000328:Adult; D001883:Borderline Personality Disorder / Q000175:diagnosis / Q000523:psychology; D006801:Humans; D007389:Internal-External Control; D009769:Object Attachment; D010553:Personality Development; D011386:Projective Techniques; D011574:Psychoanalytic Theory; D011575:Psychoanalytic Therapy